George Willett: Naturalist, Ornithologist and First Curator of L.A. County Museum of Natural History, Edited and Compiled by Robert Roy van de Hoek
BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
by
GEORGE WILLETT
Cooper Ornithological Club
Pacific Coast Avifauna Number 7
Hollywood, California
Published by the Club
July 25, 1912
Compiled by Robert “Roy” van de Hoek, March 29, 2000.
Edited by
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am deeply indebted to W.Lee Chambers and Harry J. Lelande for the unrestricted use of their fine libraries, ....
INTRODUCTION
1. (1) Aechmophorus occidentalis (Lawrence). WESTERN GREBE.
2. (2) to be continued
JOSEPH GRINNELL
and
HARRY S. SWARTH
at the
MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
I am under great obligations to Joseph Grinnell, G. Frean Morcom, Robert Ridgway and Harry S. Swarth, who have at all times been ready with advice on perplexing questions, many of which I would have been entirely unable to solve without their help.
George Willett
Los Angeles, California,
February 1, 1912.
In February, 1910, at the request of the Southern Division of the Cooper Ornithological Club, I began the compilation of the paper presented herewith. The first idea of the Club was to revise Grinnell's Birds of the Pacific Slope of Los Angeles County, published in 1898 by the Pasadena Academy of Sciences. It was finally decided , however, to extend the boundaries of teh territory covered by that list so as to take in the Pacific slope of southern California from, and including, Santa Barbara County, to the Mexican line, and from the summit of the mountains to the ocean, also including all the islands of the Santa Barbara group.
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Common winter visitant to the ocean and salt lagoon along the coast. Occasional on bodies of water inland. Arrives about September and leaves generally by the latter part of April, but may be seen occasionally during the summer. A single Western Grebe was noted by Bradford Torrey on the ocean near Santa Barbara on several occasions durign the months of June, July and August, 1910 (Condor XII, 1920, 204).